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The Steamer Benton
| 题名： | The Steamer Benton |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | KEITH NORRINGTON |
| 摘要： | The Old Boat Column this week finds us looking back in time 145 years and exploring up the capricious and cursed Missouri River. Prominent in the image is the steamboat Benton, with the Western moored alongside. Built at Pittsburgh in 1875, the Bentons wooden hull was 197 feet in length by 33 feet in width; it drew 18 inches of water. Three boilers, having two flues, supplied steam to engines (15 inch cylinders with 5-foot stroke) that were manufactured by the James Rees firm at Pittsburgh, same makers of the machinery aboard the extant excursion steamer Belle of Louisville and museum towboat W.P. Snyder Jr. The Benton was constructed for T.C. Power & Bros., and I.G. Baker & Company, for Missouri River service. The steamboat departed from Pittsburgh on its maiden trip in early 1875 and arrived at Fort Benton, Mont., on May 27, under the command of Capt. James McGarry; Joseph Hill was in charge of the clerk s office. Thus began a colorful career in which the Benton made 44 trips to Fort Benton in addition to other trips to Montana points. During the summer of 1876, the stalwart sternwheeler went to war on the Yellowstone when virtually every available steamboat on the Upper Missouri was pressed into service to accommodate soldiers who were hot on the trail of Sitting Bull and the Sioux Indians. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 11 |
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